Ukraine has used sea drones to attack Russia’s Black Sea fleet. It’s now able to fit them with missiles enabling them to fire at ships, it says. Ukraine has had to improvise to offset Russia’s naval superiority. Ukraine claims it has fitted the floating drones it is using to devastate Russia’s Black Sea fleet with […]
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Floating ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be honeycomb-shaped snow
The floating “magic islands” of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may finally have a scientific explanation. Scientists believe they’re clumps of glacier-like snow shaped like honeycomb. The so-called islands were first spotted in 2014 by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft as it peered through the orange haze surrounding Titan, which is a moon that’s bigger than the planet […]
This WWII Rescue Buoy Was A Floating Hotel For Downed Pilots
During World War II there were all sorts of technological innovations applied to a new kind of warfare, one that focused on destruction from the seas and skies. One of my favorite YouTube creators, a Scot named Calum, has covered the subject of one such fascinating failed innovation — the rescue bouy — at length, […]